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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: video
Video mashups using 1970s softcore to learn about Vietnam?
“The visual is essentially pornographic…” From Fredric Jameson’s Signatures of the Visible I’ve been thinking a lot about video mashups for teaching and learning recently. It is a lot of fun using the mashup as a prism through which to … Continue reading
China Tracy & Second Life at the Venice Biennale
Marjorie Och, a Web 2.0 compliant Art Historian here at UMW, recently returned from the Venice Biennale. Better yet, she returned excited about technology and baring gifts! One of the exhibits at the Biennale (the premiere international contemporary art exposition) … Continue reading
YouTube is mixing it up
All things video could get even more interesting very, very quickly! YouTube has officially released remixer, allowing users to mash it up in-house! Here is the blurb on their site: Sometimes, instant gratification video is just the thing you need. … Continue reading
Star Wars Anti-Smoking PSA from 1982
Here is a healthy counter to a previous set of posts here and here. [youtube]YTE–6zTs2E[/youtube]
Stuart Hall on YouTube
Did you know this amazing talk by Stuart Hall is freely available on YouTube? My class is quickly changing before my eyes thanks to this amazing resource. Below is a lecture by Hall on media and representation -ever more relevant … Continue reading
Disney Mashup Explains Copyright
Pretty remarkable explanation of copyright laws using bits and pieces of a wide range of Disney animated cartoons. A lot of fun! Eric Fadden, a professor at Bucknell University, is responsible for this Fair(y) Use Tale.
Playing with Pligg
I installed the digg-clone Pligg on my bluehost account here, and all’s well so far. The install is very straight forward: create a mysql database, change some folder/file permissions, and click on /install.php. It has a few out-of-the-box module/plugins like … Continue reading
Slavoj Zizek on The Children of Men
Here’s a five minute commentary on Children of Men by Slavoj Zizek that is packaged with the DVD. I watched this movie for a second time tonight and I was even more enthralled and impressed than the first go around … Continue reading
A Tale of the Tape: Videosift as told by my del.icio.us
Videosift is a digglike video site powered by the open source digg-clone pligg (we’re gonna have to play a bit more with this one!). Pretty self explanatory, but a couple of things come to mind: Web 2.0 Online Educational Film … Continue reading